Butter-making process.



W. W. WYGAL @L C. L. BURGESS.

\ BUTTER MAKING PROCESS.

' AA1?E'LIQATION FILD MAR. 9, 1908.

' Patented Aug. 10. 1909.

Witwe/.sns I UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

WILLIAM 'W. WYGAL AND CALVIN L. BURGESS,

OF BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA, AS'SIGNORS TO BENJAMIN N. HAWES,.OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

BUTTERIIIIAKING- PROCESS;

i .Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Aug. 1o, 1909.

Appnaaon ieanamh e, 190s. serial No. 420,027.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM .W.l WYGAL and CALVINL. Bimenes, citizens of the United States, residing at Bluefield,

vinthe county'of Mercer, State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Making Proeesses; and we do vhereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to'which it appertains-to make and use the same.

The presentl invention relates to improven vments m the manufacture of butter, and it l is shown avertical sectional View of one form of the apparatus used in carrying .out the process. I' The apparatus above referred to comprises an inner receptacle 1, preferably a stone or earthen Ware crock, and a metal outer receptacle 2 within which the first mentioned receptacle is placed. The relative diameters of the two receptacles' Aare such that when the inner-receptacle 1 is properly positioned, its walls are spaced an apprec1-' able distance `at all points from the Wall of the outer receptacle, as shown.

In carrying out the process, the receptacle 2 is filled toA approximately half its extent with water heated to a temperature varying from 95 to 130 F. In said receptacleis placed thecrock 1 in which have beenpreviously deposited a pound of fresh butter cut into small slices, and a pint of sweet rich milk or cream. This mixture is then stirred by a paddle orsimilar im lement 3, until it is reduced by the heat o the water' which surrounds the walls of the crock, to a homogeneous plastic mass, such operation con" tinuing from fifteen to twenty minutes. At

the conciusion of the operation, the mass is 50 poured into molds of any 'preferred size and shape and thereafter cooled.

It Will be apparent from the foregoing that the process Is one of extreme simplicityw and'hat it necessitates the use ofno special-f' apparatus whatever and of no foreign substances, differing in these respects from certain patented processes in which kettles, churns, stirrers, brine-tanks and working* tables are successively made user of, and carbonate of soda andsimilar substances-are em loyed.

atis claimed is: 1. A `butter-:making process consisting .solely in' mixing together sweet milk and butterin a' receptacle suroundedby water at a temperature varying from 95^to 130o F. until the mixture is reducedto a homogeneous plastic mass, and in thereaftery cooling the' mass in molds.

2. The process offproducing a food product, conslsting in placing a quantity of butter in a quantity of milk and simultaneously subjecting the'massto the action of heat, whereby through .the medium of the milk, the butter. is brought tothe proper conditionffor emulsiiication With'the mllk,

upon agitation of the entire mass.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures In presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM W. WYGAL. CALVIN L. BUReEss.

Witnesses `J. W. HILTON,

RoB'r. C; LAEFEBTY. 

